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in our day we had cap guns and when the caps rang out you shouted Bang Bang your dead, your victim would oblige and play dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by EastFreo
Today they play video shooting and sniping games the more graphic the blood and guts spewing out the better or the the game isn't worth playing it seems.
Those gell guns would have thought the fun police would have banned them as they look like replica firearms!
Bugger cap guns , when i was a kid i had a slug gun for birds in the orchid and a 22 rifle for getting rabbits , nothing like braised bunny.
You could walk into the Mick Simmonds store in Parramatta and buy a 22 no licence req and carry it home on the buss , imagine the **** that would cause to-day .
Glad i was born back then and not now .
G`day
Cap guns , Spud guns , Cracker guns ( had to make them yourself ) , Slug guns , 22 for rabbits and all at primary school age .
Back then though parents laid down the rules and uses, which meant something and i guess we were taught the difference between right and wrong .
Happy Birthday! Wish I had have known, would have gone too!Quote:
Originally Posted by trog
Yep.... I bought my .22 air rifle at K-Mart and carried it all around the shopping centre before catching the bus home!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatso
For most of my years in High-school, once a month I travelled by public transport from NW Sydney to Long Bay range for the school's military rifle club, carrying a 303 both ways. Not a single eyebrow raised or any comments. (The rifle was minus the bolt, but this was not necessarily obvious - the teacher/supervisor carried the bolts)
John
On the farm I had a shotgun, a. 22 and a slug gun to play with. Crows in the corn were favourite targets. The neighbors complained about the holes in their roof. Apparently what goes up also comes down...
Hi,
Black powder, blasting powder, percussion caps, Aluminium powder, Zinc dust, Amonium Nitrate, yellow detonator fuse could all be bought at the local hardware shop, in school uniform too.
They needed a note for detonators.
Chemist would sell the ingredients for Nitrogen Iodide and Thermite (I won't list them here)
Two inch galvanised piping with a cap made a beaut black powder cannon, or two caps for a Bangalore torpedo.
Amazing I survived it all.
Cheers
We used to do the same with PVC pipe and caps. Black powder, gun powder, and waterproof wick could be bought at any gun shop at any age all in the same basket and the clerk's didn't blink an eye.....
What's really noticeable now is that you don't see kids riding bikes everywhere anymore. When I went to school we all rode and the bike racks were full expecially in high school. Now when I drive by the school there are only a handful.
I remember being worried about our son riding to school on his own but my husband put his foot down saying it would be good for his independence. And he was right. The result of this independence was that he developed other life and problem solving abilities which is priceless expecially in a child with autism.